The American Library Association has launched a petition in which Macmillan is urged to reconsider the company’s planned eight-week windowing of all but one copy of new-release ebooks to libraries. “ALA’s goal is to send a clear message to Macmillan’s CEO John Sargent: e-book access should be neither denied nor delayed,” said ALA Executive Director Mary Ghikas in the release. We asked the ALA when they would focus their earnest efforts on the largest publisher — and indeed the largest corporation — that does outright deny patrons any access, ever, to their ebooks or digital audiobooks. That would be Amazon, […]
